Art_Deco saidAlternatively, can anyone name a leading US Republican contender for the Presidency who is PRO-GAY? [crickets}

Michigan governor Rick Snyder is steadily evolving in terms of gay rights. The last I heard is that he supports a bill that bans discrimination in employment based on natural sexual orientation. Unfortunately the bill died in committee.

Art_Deco saidAlternatively, can anyone name a leading US Republican contender for the Presidency who is PRO-GAY? [crickets}

Michigan governor Rick Snyder is steadily evolving in terms of gay rights. The last I heard is that he supports a bill that bans discrimination in employment based on natural sexual orientation. Unfortunately the bill died in committee.

Michigan has been republican controlled for years and has never been pro gay anything in Lansing. I am not sure how the state maintains "blue" status if its electoral college is supposed to represent the same voters. Either this is from gerrymandering districts favoring republicans or the majority of democratic voters are voting for republican state legislators, which would explain the "Reagan-Democrat" (social conservative Democrats who vote Republican..A.K.A Tea Party) ??

Its like trying to explain what a "Michigan Left" is to non residents, its estupido

As of 2015, Republicans hold a majority of seats in the Senate with 27; Democrats hold 11 seatsAs of 2015, Republicans hold a majority of seats in the House of Representatives with 63, and Democrats hold 47 seats

paulflexes saidIf a Republican gets elected in 2016, I honestly, truly, with all my heart, wish he gets assassinated before he ever gets to write his first hate law.

I don't see it happening, their MO, usual running platform of "family values" has gone way way too far to the right with their party now endorsing crazy behavior like "killing the gays" petitions and anti gay discrimination laws, all out in the open, blatant, hateful rhetoric. Add allowing us to marry legally in all 50 states, something they fought us for many years, they need to turn there attention to the next fight, which we see now as religious liberty versus our civil rights and existence. Nation wide LGBT Employment will be the next hurdle since its interconnected with gay marriage. Whether single or married, we all have to work or at least have an income of some type. Most of America already believes lgbt employment discrimination should not be tolerated and should have federal laws stating as such, it was marriage equality that was the big defining moment.

Republicans really have nothing to run on, except "take back the country from the gays" platform. They don't care about creating jobs or improving the economy, we already know they are for corporations, their big profits and low wages for the working class. Anyone under 30 years old is not going to vote for them if they run their usual anti gay family values campaign. They now really look and act like sociopathic lunatics, voting people are finally noticing. Hopefully, we as a forward thinking country, will NEVER have another republican or conservative thinking president again, at least in the next generation. There big learned recent lesson, now, should have been that everyone matters in our FREE country, not just the ones with the most money or influence. If they still haven't "got it" by 2016 elections, its going to take them a bit more time and that's fine by me.

the conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

Interesting, you mean all those retired, conservative, republican old people that the younger liberal democratic people will have to take care of?

Well, if I live that long, it will be nice to know that my liberal, younger counterparts will take care of me when needed. I don't really care about Christmas, just don't take away Halloween or Thanksgiving

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

Interesting, you mean all those retired, conservative, republican old people that the younger liberal democratic people will have to take care of?

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

Interesting, you mean all those retired, conservative, republican old people that the younger liberal democratic people will have to take care of?

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

Interesting, you mean all those retired, conservative, republican old people that the younger liberal democratic people will have to take care of?

Oh they'll get "taken care of" alright.

Like putting itching powder in their depends?

More like bitching powder in their rear ends...which they already have too much of.

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

Interesting, you mean all those retired, conservative, republican old people that the younger liberal democratic people will have to take care of?

Oh they'll get "taken care of" alright.

Like putting itching powder in their depends?

More like bitching powder in their rear ends...which they already have too much of.

To be honest, I thought there would be at least a couple of GOP candidates who believed in equal rights for gay Americans, but none have come forward yet. The sad fact is that the party seems to be getting more extreme and anti-gay as the nation becomes more approving of gay rights.The Republican party continues to become more isolated and appeal to fewer people... Young people, especially are very turned off by the GOP's bigotry.

Apparition saidthe conservatives will fail in 2016, 2020 they will be back though running on OLD PEOPLE HAVE NO MONEY we will give you (bread and circuses) I mean, health care, and nursing homes, and pills, and oh by the way we just imported 100 million younger middle aged brown people to pay for it, sorry about christmas being demoted to a regular day, we needed the tax base.

too many boomers, not enough gen x.

You mean not enough Millennials. Gen X has become more conservative as it has gotten older in as the same way as the boomers.